Chain-smoking public relations man Lord Bell, who's advised Chilean dictator General Pinochet and Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad, says of his time working as Lady Thatcher's image consultant: 'There were many conversations in which she shouted at me and told me I was an idiot.'

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Uber's loathsome founder Travis Kalanick, 41, who departed last year with his £6billion fortune when his firm became embroiled in a string of sexual harassment scandals, is giving evidence at an intellectual property trial in San Francisco.

In the witness stand on Tuesday, he gulped down four bottles of water in less than an hour. My Silicon Valley source advises: 'He's known in these parts as Travis Colonic.'

Time was when medallion-wearing Flavio Briatore, who once boasted a £100million fortune, serenaded supermodels aboard private jets.

Has the ex-Renault boss's recent divorce from sultry wife Elisabetta, 37, left him counting the pennies?

The sagging playboy, 67, was yesterday spotted in Milan patiently taking a steerage seat aboard a British Airways flight to London.

Mercedes has issued a snivelling apology to China, one of its biggest markets. Its crime? Posting an innocuous quote on Instagram by the Dalai Lama, who Beijing's waxworks consider a dangerous separatist.